A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Indonesia has more than a thousand pieces of plastic in its stomach, including 115 plastic cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags, and two flip-flops.

The National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report by 13 federal agencies, spells out in stark detail the health, environmental, and economic consequences if drastic action is not taken soon to limit climate change. The Trump administration releases the report on the afternoon of Black Friday in an apparent attempt to bury its findings. 

A Trump-approved oil-drilling project in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, is delayed by a lack of sea ice due to climate change.

The upcoming 2018 UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, will be sponsored by Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa, one of Poland’s leading coal companies.

Brazil backs out of hosting the 2019 UN climate conference. The country’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has vowed to develop the Amazon, and his incoming foreign minister has called climate change a plot by Marxists. 

Rains finally extinguish the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history. Eighty-eight people are known dead, and 196 are still missing. The fire burned 240 square miles of Northern California.

President Donald Trump visits the scene of the Camp Fire and suggests that it might have been prevented had the surrounding forests been raked. 

A county GOP chair in Ohio says he didn’t intend “any disrespect” by posting a meme on Facebook suggesting that the state’s wildfires were “God’s punishment to liberal California.”

Mountain lion P-74, a year-old male, is believed to have perished in the Woolsey Fire in Southern California. 

Half of Coloradans live in areas at risk of wildfire. 

Warmer winters are luring black vultures, commonly found in South America, north as far as Missouri, where they are attacking newborn calves.

General Motors halts production at three assembly plants, killing off the Chevrolet Volt, its plug-in electric hybrid model. Angered at the loss of 14,000 jobs, Trump threatens to cut all subsidies to GM, including those for electric cars.  

After Wisconsin curtails rules and procedures to prevent the spread of the fatal brain malady called chronic wasting disease on game farms in the state, increasing numbers of deer and elk on those farms develop CWD.  

Ancient Africans are exonerated from killing off the continent’s megafauna.  

House Republicans vote to strip endangered-species protection from gray wolves in the Lower 48.

A Chinese researcher says he altered the DNA in two embryos, resulting in the world’s first gene-edited babies. 

EPA emails obtained by the Sierra Club through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Fox show Fox & Friends regularly shared scripts and questions with former administrator Scott Pruitt in advance of its interviews with him. 

A right-wing activist associated with James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas attempts to infiltrate the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter.  

Bernard McNamee, Trump’s nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, believes that fossil fuels are the “key to our prosperity” and a “clean environment,” and that renewables “screw up the whole physics of the grid.”  

In 90 percent of gas-pipeline explosions, federal regulators seek no penalties.

Over the last four decades, the cost of solar photovoltaic modules has fallen by 99 percent.